Submission and required documentation

Authors are invited to submit their scholarly contribution, together with a curriculum vitae and an indication of their principal areas of interest and expertise, to: redazione@aequitasmagazine.it, or via the collaboration form available on the Journal’s website (the system does not issue an automatic receipt).

Aequitas Magazine operates in compliance with its Publication Ethics (PDF), which authors are strongly encouraged to consult prior to submission.

Evaluation process and peer review

Upon receipt, each submission is automatically placed on an evaluation list according to chronological order, assigned to reviewers and is then subject to critical assessment and peer review within four weeks. For particularly complex and extensive manuscripts, the review timeline may extend to five to eight weeks.

Each manuscript is assessed anonymously (blind) by members of the Scientific Committee and/or external experts, and is evaluated through a structured double peer review procedure, included antiplagiarism check.

If deemed suitable (with or without requested revisions), publication will be scheduled accordingly.

The purpose of peer review is to select publishable work and to enhance its scientific value, in accordance with the following guiding questions:

• Does the manuscript provide an original or more effective contribution to the existing literature?
• Could the text be made clearer and better highlight the core issue under discussion?
• Can the coherence and logical consistency of the argumentation be improved?

Scholarly requirements and editorial purpose

To be considered for publication, submissions must be written in Italian or English, have a clear scholarly and intellectual character, and be consistent with the Journal’s scope. Manuscripts must be original and previously unpublished, including in digital or online formats.

Submissions should demonstrate clarity of writing, coherence and logical structure, terminological accuracy, careful use of sources and bibliography, adequate depth, scholarly relevance, methodological soundness, validity of results, critical analysis, and overall scientific rigour. Contributions are intended to support research and academic debate and to foster dissemination and scientific updating for scholars, researchers, independent academics, practitioners and legal professionals (lawyers, notaries, judges, etc.).

The Journal follows an open access model: all published content is freely available, with no charges to readers or their institutions, and may be read, copied, downloaded, linked, printed, indexed, and shared (in whole or in part) via email or social media, subject to the applicable licence terms.

Copyright, first publication rights and licence

If a submission is accepted, the Author, as the holder of copyright, grants the Publisher the right of first publication and authorises dissemination under open access terms, in accordance with the Journal’s editorial policies and under the Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Under this licence, anyone may share the work, provided that authorship and first publication in this Journal are properly acknowledged.

Authors retain copyright and all publishing rights without restrictions, provided that the Journal is cited as the original editorial source,
and they retain the right to deposit versions of their work in an institutional repository or in another repository of their choice.

Collaboration is unpaid: no fees, honoraria, or expense reimbursements are provided to Authors.

Scientific area and thematic sections

The Journal’s subject matter falls within the scientific-disciplinary macro-area “Social Sciences”, specifically Area 12 (Legal Sciences), and welcomes cross-cutting and interdisciplinary perspectives, including connections between law and other domains of knowledge, according to the Journal’s Thematic Areas:

• Current case law: contemporary case law (with particular attention to decisions of the Joint Chambers of the Italian Supreme Court);
• Current legal issues: legal issues of major contemporary social, cultural and geopolitical relevance;
• Civil Law;
• Criminal Law;
• Law and Anthropology;
• Law and Bioethics;
• Law and History;
• Law and Technology.

Editorial rules

The title must not exceed 150 characters (including spaces). It should include the main keyword, preferably at the beginning, and be direct, clear, simple, and effective.

Quotations from other authors and from statutory or case-law sources must be presented in italics and within double quotation marks,
with the source indicated (preferably in a footnote), and must not exceed 20% of the overall manuscript.

Length requirements: articles must range from a minimum of 800 to a maximum of 8,000 words;
monographs may exceed 8,000 words.
Manuscripts exceeding 3,000 words should be organised into titled sections to improve readability.

The Manuscripts must be accompained by an Abstract.

The Manuscripts must not include boldface, highlighting, or underlining, nor hyperlinks to external websites. Terms in ancient or foreign languages must be written in italics (e.g., sine titulo, tout court, stalking), as should quoted sources and cited passages.

Standard abbreviations may be used for legislation, judicial decisions and judicial authorities (e.g., c.c., d.lgs., Cost.; sent., ord.; Cass., CGUE, et similia), as well as acronyms for supranational entities, international organisations and other institutions (EU, UN, INPS, etc.).

Authors are encouraged to provide keywords (maximum five), an essential bibliography (author’s surname and first name, title, publisher, place, year, pages; for online journals, include the ISSN; for ancient sources, indicate the collection/compilation, fragment,
or work), and any explanatory notes where appropriate.

Authors may propose or attach one rectangular image in jpg format (80–300 kB).

Accepted languages are Italian and English. The Manuscript and curriculum vitae may be submitted in
Word or PDF format.